bin Laden

[magid]

I've had Osama bin Laden on my "list of scary people I wouldn't mind stopped" since long before 9/11 due to terrorist activities and his attitudes towards Israel. In fact, he was the first person I thought of that horrible morning almost a decade ago. I would have preferred his having been put into the legal system, though that have prompted reprisals, especially with the possibility of getting him back alive. I am not sorry that he's no long able to organize more terrorist actions, but I do regret that it unfortunately won't stop the massive war machine nor the assault on on civil liberties in the US (and the security theater in airports) that has been the result of that day, results that I think might be worse for the country than the more obvious aftermath.

It happened yesterday, May Day, which was also Yom haShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Jewish calendar, already an odd unsettling contrast.